Bidspirit auction | NEUES PALÄSTINA-HANDBUCH. FÜHRER DURCH PALÄSTINA.1934

NEUES PALÄSTINA-HANDBUCH. FÜHRER DURCH PALÄSTINA.1934 - 1934 . 552 pp. Plus 8 folding colour lithograph maps and 10 folding lithograph plans printed in 2 colours. With 18 maps and plans to the text, tables. Six appendices, indices. Endpaper maps. First edition. A remarkably detailed work, encompassing not only a travellers' guide but a source book on Palestine and the Holy Land which, in the author's words, is intended to give ”ein Bild von Land und Leuten, Geschichte und Kultur, Wirtschaft und Forschung,” and hoped ”dürfte jedem Palästina-reisenden ein wilkommener Freund und Führer sein.” Jesaias, a resident of Jerusalem, provides a wealth of information, meticulously detailed. He scans the land north- and southwards, paying special attention to the major cities of Haifa, Tel-Aviv, Jaffa, and Jerusalem, and continues to Trans-Jordan and Syria. In the appendices he gives a full list of all Jewish villages in Palestine with related information that could be gathered from the sources available at the time, a glossary of Hebrew words, and a concordance of Biblical places mentioned in the guide. Indeed, the only aspect seems to have been neglected in this work is a reference to the fauna and flora of the land.